ˈfākə(r) noun
( -s )
Etymology: fake (III) + -er
: one that fakes: as
a. : a person who makes fakes
sought by the genealogical scholar and the pedigree faker alike — A.R.Wagner
b. : a street or fair vendor who seeks to deceive by ascribing great value or efficacy to cheap or worthless products : fraud , swindler
the business objective of the old medicine-show fakers was to … defraud the public — C.M.Babcock
c. : one that passes himself off as something other than he is or pretends to qualities or abilities that he does not possess : pretender , impostor , phony
more honest than the majority of art lovers and concertgoers, most of whom he regards as … cultural fakers — Hunter Mead